You could always try to get into creating your own sprites and other things.

I haven't used RPG Maker in a really long time.. When I was in high school I was working on a Zelda game I was calling; The Untold Adventures of Link, and then my friend basically forced his way on board, started taking everything over with all of his ideas, so I just gave up on it because it was turning into a completely different game from where I was taking it. =\ I'm not a very assertive person, so I couldn't just tell him off or anything..